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Arrival of the Winthrop Colony, by William F. Halsall. The Winthrop Fleet was a group of 11 ships led by John Winthrop out of a total of 16 [1] funded by the Massachusetts Bay Company which together carried between 700 and 1,000 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630, during the first period of the Great Migration.
Mary and John was a 400-ton ship that is known to have sailed between England and the American colonies four times from 1607 to 1634. Named in tribute to John and Mary Winthrop [2] she was captained by Robert Davies and owned by Roger Ludlow (1590–1664), one of the assistants of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [3]
The Puritan migration to New England took place from 1620 to 1640, declining sharply afterwards. The term "Great Migration" can refer to the migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England Colonies , starting with Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony . [ 1 ]
In 1630, the first ships of the Great Puritan Migration sailed to the New World, led by John Winthrop. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] John Winthrop (1587/8-1649), Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , who led the Puritans in the Great Migration , beginning in 1630.
Griffin was the name of a 17th-century ship known to have sailed between England and English settlements along Massachusetts Bay in British America. Several historical and genealogical references show Griffin making such journeys in 1633 and 1634. The 1633 journey left from Downs, England, and landed at Plymouth in Plymouth Colony on September 3.
Arbella or Arabella [2] was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet on which Governor John Winthrop, other members of the Company (including William Gager), and Puritan emigrants transported themselves and the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company from England to Salem between April 8 and June 12, 1630, thereby giving legal birth to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The couple's first child was baptized in Berkhamsted in March 1634, and within months of this date the young family boarded a ship for New England. [3] John Austin suggests that they sailed on the Griffin , [ 4 ] but Robert Anderson rejects that hypothesis, stating that Scott was admitted to the Boston church on 28 August 1634 while the Griffin ...
In total, fifteen ships transported about 1,500 people to Massachusetts in 1630. [8] Their emigration initiated an event known as the Puritan Great Migration when as many as 21,000 people emigrated to New England between 1630 and 1640. [16]